Mid-East Realities, 25 August 1998. When the
anti-American Iranian Revolution took place 19 years ago it
didn't happen in a vacuum, and what is taking place
today in 1998 is not happening in a vacuum either. The
coalition of radical Muslim groups that has come together to
challenge U.S./Israeli domination of the Middle East issues
demands.

The New Statesman Leader, New Statesman, 17
September 2001. The US often seems a greedy and overweening
power because its people have willed it. The USSR gave the
poor the sense of an alternative, of possibility. The
terrorist attacks have hit a civilisation that has grown
complacent, selfish and in some respects decadent.

By Arundhati Roy, Le Monde diplomatique,
March 2003. How do we confront the complexity of empire, of
corporate globalization? The free market does not threaten
national sovereignty, it undermines democracy. Before 11
September 2001 the US had a secret history, but now that
history public knowledge. We can improve our memory, learn
from our history. We can build public opinion until it
becomes overwhelming.

Editorial, Workers World, 22 April
2004. There's one very important word that an oppressed
nation, the Palestinians, have brought from Arabic to the
rest of the world's languages: Intifada. It has come to
mean an uprising with deep roots in the population, an
uprising of people who possess little in the way of weapons
compared to the oppressor state and lots of courage and
determination.